What Are Cataracts? What Causes Cataracts?

Cataract and eye lens which is transparent to see the reduction of lost transparency.Colored layer of the eye is located behind the iris and the lens is a transparent structure, has an important role in visual function. Reduction of eye lens transparency,  in the case of the cataract will decrease the clarity of vision, the patient will be blurred.Cataracts eyes, blurred vision, according to the degree of cataract, blurred vision, starting at very different levels of degrees will only see the light.

Does Cataract appear in both of eyes ?

Cataract, a disease that usually affects both eyes. Sometimes both eyes by moving together with the start and causes both eyes are affected equally. Sometimes it starts with cataract in one eye. However, the other eye sees patients full, less the eye seen may not recognize, cataract progresses, or it realizes that a change to see the patient, the doctor thinks that the glasses are connected to changes in number and examination of applicants will be revealed to the cataract.

What are the symptoms of cataract?

Cataract, begins to different parts of the eye lens, and accordingly the complaints of the patient consults a different vision. A common complaint in all patients, decreased vision, and blurred vision. However, some patients with light, not the state that they see better in dim environments. Some of them regards the continuously blurred and increasingly they have become worse, some will complain about not read well. A typical visual symptoms seen in some types of cataracts is that the eye becomes myopic. These patients had seen better than in the past relative, or even close to the book-reading the newspaper better than the naked eye, they saw no need to express their glasses. The remote is not needed for the hyperopic glasses in patients using these glasses. In patients with hyperopia glasses eye wear when this number falls examination, myopia is the observed increase in number. Previously, he saw a better discerning eye without the aid of relatives of patients, this condition is satisfied. Regards the blurring of time and distance, but far worse than realizing that began seeing a doctor is forced to resort to.

Which ages seen more often cataract?

Cataracts are usually known as an old age disease. This is true, more than 90% of patients with cataract consists of people over the age of 60. However, the cataract seen not only in the elderly. Cataract can be seen in all age groups, including smaller proportions. For example, a new type of cataract can be seen in infants, such as a so-called congenital cataracts in children, adolescents and elderly, cataracts can be found in the middle. Therefore, no matter what age group or a reduction in a patient with blurred vision, cataract is one of the diseases imaginable.

What are the causes for cataracts?

Many and varied causes of cataracts. The majority of 90% of aging, such as cataracts and age over 60, called senile cataracts as the cataracts formed. Elderly cataract, cataract, do not need to search for the cause. However, cataracts are seen in people under the age of 50, is an underlying cause. This type of metabolic disorders such as cataracts may be related by inheritance, traumatic causes (a variety of physical blows from the eye), or used drugs (eg corticosteroids) also can be linked.

What are the characteristics of cataract in İnfants ?

New born babies, congenital cataract type called a cataract may occur. Congenital cataract, one or both eyes can be seen. His mother during pregnancy, as well as congenital cataracts or some genetic diseases, some medications used, depends on various causes such as exposure to x-rays. In addition, at birth, but there are some incipient cataracts is advancing age children. Treatment of congenital cataracts, aging vary by cataract. Because almost all babies born with cataracts, amblyopia remains even though they are operated on time. In addition, infants in the first 2 years after cataract intraocular lens placement is known which leads to various problems in infants up to age 2 received only intraocular lens put on cataracts. But good vision to see these babies should be to avoid the use of glasses or contact lenses. Cataracts, intraocular lenses used in the next 2 years. Nevertheless, various thoughts and discussions on this issue still exist between the ophthalmologists. However, whatever the application, congenital cataract vision of babies' visual acuity can not talk to 100% as mild, moderate or severe degree remains a weakness.

Treatment of Cataract

Surgery is the only form of treatment for Cataract today (surgery). Differences in children or the elderly, although some of the technical operations of cataract surgery kataraktlarının the transaction, rather than taken a cataract intraocular lens consists of the placement.

Cataract Surgery

Cataract surgery is done under local anesthesia in adults with general anesthesia in children. Local anesthesia by injection (needle) or injection (needle) can be made by drop. Today, cataract surgery, laser cataract surgery among the people'''''' PHACOEMULSIFICATION'' or simply'' known as the medical name for a technique called phacoemulsification performed''. This technique is popularly termed as'' seamless'' cataract surgery. Indeed, this technique sewing is required. In the former technique, known as the place of surgery Welded surgery was closed with stitches.Phaco surgery, cataract surgery known as laser. 

However, the energy used here, laser energy is not really an ultrasound (sound vibrations) energy. Cataract phaco technique, ultrasound energy is absorbed completely separated into small pieces are cleaned, but the capsule of the cataract is left in place. Into the capsule left in situ, the intraocular lens is placed. Intraocular lenses, hard, two types of folding. Foldable intraocular lenses, a smaller incision can be installed around the inside of the eye has some advantages.Polymethylmethacrylate intraocular lenses, acrylic, silicone, such as are produced in different materials. There are various advantages and disadvantages of these materials. The surgeon should take into account the properties of the eye will be operated by holding them to use what type intraocular lens according to the situation during pre-operative plan or plans may change.

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